Three years ago I warned that RAID 5 would stop working in 2009. Sure enough, no enterprise storage vendor now recommends RAID 5. They now recommend RAID 6, which protects against two drive failures.

One of the first big challenges neophyte sysadmins and data hoarding enthusiasts face is how to store more than a single disk worth of data. The short—and traditional—answer here is RAID (a Redundant ...

Unlike in the home environment where data can be stored on a single hard drive, organizations have needs to store much larger amounts of data. How much data? We’re talking about really large amounts ...

RAID 50 offers a balance of performance, storage capacity, and data integrity Your email has been sent RAID 50 is an often overlooked RAID level that can bridge the gap when it comes to choosing ...

Hard drives fail, and they do it much more often than we'd like to think. Even if you've set up automated hard drive backups, you're not necessarily getting the best backup bang for your ...

Today, RAID is fast and can speed up drive access on your Mac. Here's how to get started building your own, inexpensively. A Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) is a way to speed up your ...

Stevey, admitted confused by the benefits of RAIDs, asked the Answer Line forum to explain these hard drive groups. A Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) puts multiple hard drives together to ...